Brian Greene Quotes
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
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The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
